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Collection 681 Oral History Interview with Mertis Byram Heimbach
Collection
Identifier: CN 681
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Mertis Byram Heimbach (1921- ) missionary in China, Thailand, Singapore and U.S. with China Inland Mission (CIM) and (as it was later known) Overseas Missionary Fellowship (OMF) from 1946 to 1999. Topics discussed include childhood in Korea; parents’ mission work; Wheaton College and Prairie Bible Institute; marriage to Ernest Heimbach; Hmong (Miao) people; tribal mission work; Communist takeover of China; Communist treatment of Christians; CIM’s exit from China;...
Dates:
2014
Collection 256 Oral History Interviews with Malcolm and Helen Sawyer
Collection
Identifier: CN 256
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Malcolm Maurice Sawyer (1919-2007) and with Helen Irvin Sawyer, in which the Sawyers discuss their childhood, education, and working for the Christian and Missionary Alliance in China, 1948-1950 and in Laos, 1950-1975. Mission activities in Laos include church planting, training of pastors, and medical assistance to the Khamu and Hmong peoples, language study, Vietnam, Thailand and Tibet, transfer to Laos, cultural differences, political situation in Vietnam,...
Dates:
Created: 1985
Collection 315 Oral History Interview with Marie H. Little
Collection
Identifier: CN 315
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Marie Huttenlock Little (1918-2009) in which she describes her childhood in Philadelphia, training as a nurse and further education at Philadelphia School of Bible and the University of Pennsylvania; missionary service with China Inland Mission in 1947, working in Lanzhou and Wu Wei, Gansu province; return to the U.S. in 1950 to become a staff worker for Inter-Varsity. The time period covered by the interviews is circa 1918-1955.Marie Little was...
Dates:
Created: 1985
Collection 310 Oral History Interview with Eugene Grosman
Collection
Identifier: CN 310
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Eugene Grosman in which he discusses his early life in the Soviet Union, his conversion to Christianity, his emigration from the Soviet Union, his studies at Moody Bible Institute, and his work with Slavic Gospel Association. The time period covered by the interviews is 1945-1985.Eugene Grosman was interviewed by Robert Shuster at the Billy Graham Center Archives on September 4 and 18. The collection as recorded consisted of three audio tapes. However,...
Dates:
Created: 1985
Collection 302 Oral History Interview with David L. Farah
Collection
Identifier: CN 302
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with David Livingstone Farah, in which he discusses his upbringing, education at Wheaton College, work as an administrator with Wycliffe Bible Translators in Peru and Bolivia, and relationships with other religious bodies, national groups and governments. Other topics include the 1950 revival at Wheaton College; Wycliffe jungle training in Mexico; the Catholic Church in Bolivia and the prevalence of syncretism; differences between Peru and Bolivia; description of...
Dates:
Created: 1985
Collection 272 Papers of Jennie Fitzwilliam
Collection
Identifier: CN 272
Scope and Contents
Letters with some translation, photographs, a Lisu translation of the New Testament, combined catechism and hymnbook in the Atsi Kachin language, slides, and four oral history interviews all related to Jennie Fitzwilliam's mission work with Overseas Missionary Fellowship (formerly China Inland Mission) among the Lisu and Kachin peoples in southern China along the Burmese border. Included are recollections of Fitzwilliam's husband, Francis, J.O. Fraser and the early history of missionary work...
Dates:
Created: 1985
Collection 409 Papers of David D. Thomas
Collection
Identifier: CN 409
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, photographs, negatives, and clippings relating to the linguistic and missionary work of David and Dorothy Thomas in the Philippines, Vietnam (especially with the Chrau tribe), Cambodia, and Thailand with Wycliffe Bible Translators from 1954-1975. The bulk of the content consists of David and Dorothy's letters to his mother, Ruth, who lived in Wheaton, IL. Topics covered in the correspondence include information on the Thomas family, missionary work in the Philippines, and...
Dates:
Created: 1954-1975
Collection 089 Papers of Paul P. Stough
Collection
Identifier: CN 089
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, films, videos relating to Paul P. Stough’s missionary service in the Belgian Congo with Africa Inland Mission. Materials contain information on Stough's father, Henry Stough, Wheaton College, Paul Stough's work as a missionary for Africa Inland Mission in the Belgian Congo (Zaire) and Kenya from the 1920s to the 1970s, and generally on the spread of Christianity in Africa.
Dates:
Created: 1979-1992
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- Bible. 7
- Communism. 7
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- Children of missionaries. 5
- Christian education. 4
- Communism -- China. 4
- Conversion. 4
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- Mass media in missionary work. 4
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- Women missionaries. 4
- Bible colleges 3
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 3
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- China -- History. 3
- China -- Religion. 3
- Chinese language. 3
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 3
- Christian literature. 3
- Christianity and culture. 3
- Missionaries -- Training of. 3
- Missionaries' spouses. 3
- Missions -- Educational work. 3
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- Tribes. 3
- Women -- Religious life. 3
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- Bolivia -- Religion. 1
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- Buddhism. 1
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- Catholic Church -- Missions. 1
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- Wheaton College (Ill.) 5
- OMF International. 3
- Christian and Missionary Alliance. 2
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 2
- Kuhn, Isobel. 2
- Kuhn, John Becker. 2
- Moody Bible Institute. 2
- Wycliffe Bible Translators. 2
- Zhongguo guo min dang. 2
- Adeney, David H. (David Howard) 1
- Advent Christian Church. 1
- Africa Inland Church. 1
- Africa Inland Mission. 1
- American Colonization Society. 1
- Becker, Carl K., Jr. 1
- Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 1
- Blanchard, Jonathan, 1811-1892. 1
- Borden Memorial Hospital (Lanchow, China) 1
- Chefoo School (Yen t'ai shih, China) 1
- Congo Protestant Council. 1
- Crawford, Percy B. (Percy Bartimus) 1
- Davis, Ralph T. 1
- Dodds, Gilbert, 1918- 1
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 1
- Ekvall, Robert B. (Robert Brainerd), 1898-1983. 1
- Evangelical Literature Overseas. 1
- Farah, David L. 1
- Fitzwilliam, Francis. 1
- Fitzwilliam, Jennie. 1
- Frame, Raymond. 1
- Fraser, James Outram, 1886-1938. 1
- Gospel Recordings, Inc. 1
- Graham, Ruth Bell. 1
- Grosman, Eugene. 1
- Heimbach, Ernest E. 1
- Heimbach, Mertis B. 1
- Hunt, Bruce Finley, 1903-1992. 1
- Hurlburt, Charles E. 1
- Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. 1
- International Missionary Council. 1
- Kantzer, Kenneth S. 1
- Kivengere, Festo. 1
- Little, Marie, 1918-2009. 1
- Little, Paul E. 1
- Lumumba, Patrice, 1925-1961. 1
- Marini, Pierre. 1
- Mau Mau. 1
- Moscow (Russia) 1
- Palau, Luis, 1934- 1
- Paul, S. Austin. 1
- Paz Estenssoro, Víctor, 1907-2001. 1
- Philadelphia Bible Institute. 1
- Pinney, John Brooke, 1806-1882. 1
- Pittman, Richard S. (Richard Saunders), 1915- 1
- Prairie Bible Institute. 1
- Sawyer, Helen L. 1
- Sawyer, Malcolm M. 1
- Schoerner, Otto Frederick. 1
- Scott Theological College. 1
- Simpson, Clarence J. 1
- Slavic Gospel Association. 1
- Stough, Henry W. 1
- Stough, Paul. 1
- Summer Institute of Linguistics. 1
- Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935. 1
- Thomas, David D. 1
- Thomas, Dorothy Fowler. 1
- Thomas, Ruth Dunton. 1
- Townsend, William Cameron, 1896-1982. 1
- U.S. Center for World Mission 1
- Van Dusen, George C. 1
- World Council of Churches. 1
- World Wide Pictures, Inc. 1 ∧ less
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